Validation of XES sample log fails.

pcoder

Dear all,

I am finding this wierd problem. 

When I try to validate the sample XES file (running-example.xes) from the Process Mining book by van der Aalst, located at  http://www.processmining.org/_media/processminingbook/chapter_1.zip, against the xes schema located at http://code.deckfour.org/xes/xes.xsd, I get the following schema validation error:

Cannot find the declaration of element 'log'.

I try to validate the schema using the online tool http://tools.decisionsoft.com/schemaValidate/

Am I doing something wrong?

JBuijs

Hi PCoder,

Thank you for pointing this out, it is indeed strange that it does not validate.
I will ask around if this needs to be fixed.

pcoder

Thanks Joos, I thought I was the only one with this problem

pcoder

It happened that the answer to the question was very simple and within the schema definition itself http://code.deckfour.org/xes/xes.xsd

The schema specifies that the element log needs three required attributes: xes.version, openxes.version, and xes.features and the xml namespace should be http://code.fluxicon.com/xes rather than http://code.deckfour.org/xes. Also, it doesn't need the xes.creator attribute.

I wonder if the schema was modified after the book was written.

The log element should look something like the attached image to comply to the schema.

JBuijs

Hi PCoder,

Thanks for investigating this further!!!
There were some changes to the XES standard in the last year so that might indeed be the cause for the mismatch.
I'll see if I can update the example log file to match the schema.

lca

Any news on this issue? It does not seem to be solved.